Lech Lecha: Does God's Knowledge of Future Change It | STUMP THE RABBI (248)

la. Don't gossip. Don't keep your mouth closed. Avoid the silence. everyone evil keep your soul shine La speak to gossip. [singing] Silence. Start a fight. If you have good harmful word, keep the tongue warm. We are back here on our Wednesday night stump. The rabbi we're after you guys will ask some questions will give us the answers. Tonight's show is going to be for the bench and all of AI is and all the righteous noises that continue to watch us, continue to learn with us, continue to support the organization and continue to be partners with us in this extraordinary uh kiru revolution that the organization is doing over the last 10 years. Anyone that wants to donate can donate on bezem.org. And also as a reminder for anyone that is not familiar, we have a sadik that uh for many years has been going to Kevl uh to do special prayers for people and uh he even makes a recording of the uh prayer that he makes for each individual person which we send it to them. 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It's uh uh instead of it being uh $1,500, it's uh it's only $1,000. So that is also available on the store. Uh lastly, anyone that wants to order books or uh the SR cards, of course, you could always go to the Kiru store that we have kirutore.org. So with that being said, Karim, we'll get started. There's a very very interesting deep subject that I am sure has been on your mind at some point in your life and you did not have an answer for it. Is an extraordinary para. We learn about au. Even more so we learn about how runs the world and uh in Hashem tells that Isel is going to be slaves in Egypt for 400 years and only after the Amorites, the Canaanite nation of the Amorites sins fulfill their measure will am be allowed and gifted. ed the land of Israel. This is a prime example of Hashem's knowledge of the future. And of course, if Hashem knows the future, the famous question is, do we still have free choice? This very deep and important question will be addressed among other things. And after that, you guys will ask some questions and will give us the answers. So we start off where tells go for yourself from your land from your relatives. Leave leave the comfort zone which is something that many people have to do as part of their chuva as part of their conversion. You have to leave that comfort zone that you live in where you're you know surrounded by goim. You're surrounded by idolattors. you're surrounded by people that are not uh living in a Jewish community that uh praying every day to Hashem. Uh and uh in order for you to do chuva, in order for you to convert, you have to live in a Jewish community. It's very very necessary. And I know that some of you have asked me about different uh strategies. I even have a student from England that uh years ago came to me and uh asked me about uh you know different things and uh guidance for conversion and the biggest battle that she had over the years among the divorce and the complications of life and so on was moving to a Jewish community because her ex-husband became anti-semite became an anti-semite and uh she wanted to convert her daughters literally learned Hebrew better than Hebrew speakers already by the age of like six or seven and uh but she could not convert because she couldn't move to Jewish community because of the court situation. Well, I'd like to tell you that despite all of the difficulties, despite all of the endless endless tests that this woman had, she is finally converted today. very difficult battle, very difficult test. But of course, this was one of the ones that wanted it and knew her heart and after testing her over and over again for years, she merited becoming part of Israel, many people look for shortcuts. Many people look for different things. It doesn't work. It simply does not work. Even if somebody's going to convert you despite you living in the end of the world where the your next door neighbor is a cow or perhaps a mountain and they'll convert you anyway, all you're doing is you're asking for problems. As I told one of my dear students today that wants to convert with his family. Why? Because you need the Jewish community. You need to go to synagogue. You need to have a yeshiva for your kids. And uh if you are a uh someone that has a uh somebody to teach you, a rabbi that's going to teach you on a regular basis at home, no problem. But most people don't have that. Most people say, "Well, you know, why can't I just read books to my kids?" It's not enough. It's not enough. You need Judaism and uh especially people that are new to it. So is told by and commanded by to leave. Leave is comfort zone. And in the process his number one talid aside from Ara his number one Talmid was his nephew Lot Lot decides to leave Aram and go to why there's more money over there. There's more materialism over there and also there's no rabbis over there. SO MY RABBI IS NOT GOING TO HAVE NOT have the ability to tell me what to do over there. It's not going to tell me what to do, what to give, if I'm allowed to steal, not allowed to steal. Lot goes. And of course, as the par tells us, a war begins. The five kings versus the four kings. In the process, the disaster of a lifetime happens to Lot where he becomes a hostage. Why does he become a hostage? Why don't they just kill him like everybody else? They killed a lot of people. Why did they just kill him? Because he looked exactly like au. And the midrash says because he looked like au. These kings wanted to show their people that they captured au because they knew that Abrau is the man of God. He's the most powerful man in the world. But if they captured him, he's a prisoner. Then they really are the kings of the world. So what happens in chapter 14 verse number 14? It says and when Abraham heard that his kinsmen was taken captive, he armed his disciples who had been born in his house 318 and he pursued them as far as Dan. Interestingly, even though this was not originally part of the sh of course a bahu sends us many messages and we listen to different students, different colleagues, different I thought that this was an absolute must even though it doesn't have much to do with the topic at hand of Hashem knowing the future yet. Here we see that lot nishbah nishbah means became captive [snorts] and of took action in the world today many rabbis and non-rabis have decided that everyone that is secular every Jew that's a Shabbat Everyone that is keeps nothing is A HE'S LIKE A captive says our dear who is our not only our editor but also just came out with item he's been working with for many years he brings an extraordinary kush and And he says, "Rav, I" he heard, he tells me, he says, "Rav, I heard from your lectures when he was helping us with my book that you said that even if somebody is a nishb, a is a captive baby, secular Jew, he's a captive baby." Okay, don't leave him. Don't leave him captive. And he says today, look, we see it in the par saw that Lot is Lot is captive. What do went and went to war to go free his nephew. So he says, so even the tells us exactly what you said in the IS BACK TO WHAT YOU SAID in the book. Even if you want to conclude that everyone is a nishb, why are you leaving him nishb? Why are you leaving them captive? Why you leaving them? Go help them. Go do kiru. Go help them do chuva. Get them one of these kiru boxes. Help people. Just today, one of my students told me that she gave out some of our kiru boxes to our co-workers that were Jewish and they were literally they fell off their chairs. Never seen anything like this. Wow. It's so amazing. STARTED WATCHING IT on the spot. Started watching on the spot over the holidays. We gave out dozens of them to people we we had in the uh in the synagogue. People I never met before. People most of them didn't even know who I was. Not that I needed to, but they now met me. They opened it up. Wow. I never seen anything like this. businessmen, developers, all types of uh people from all walks of life open up, start watching it. And you start seeing these people literally leave everything and start watching it. The next day they come to me, he's like, "Wow, I watched the the first thing, the movie. It's amazing." And then the other one says, "Listen, I started watching. I couldn't stop watching it, but it's 19 hours. I had to go to sleep eventually. I could have watched the whole 19 hours." I'm like, "It's okay. Don't worry." Another one told me, "I watched it until the battery died." I said, "Don't worry. There's a wire inside the box. You connect it, it recharges. The K of box is making a revolution in people's lives. As I told you time and time again, it's the greatest gift is given not only to but to this generation. It's the ultimate tool to do Kiru without saying a single word. Everyone says, "Yes, I want one." In fact, one of my students told me today she gave it out to those co-workers and one of our non-Jewish co-workers saw it. She became jealous. How come I don't get one? How come I don't get one? So, she asked me, "Rabbi, is it okay? She's not Jewish, but she's really nice and can I give her one?" I said, "Okay, okay, give her one. Give her one. It's okay. She'll do chuba at the very least. She'll become a righteous no perhaps maybe even converted to Judaism just like this other dear student in England." The point is this whole concept of that everyone is a captive baby like is not necessarily a uh something that agree on across the board. In fact, the vast majority of do not agree with it. Shalom writes in the 10th volume in Sim 55 in Yud Alif here clarifies exactly the situation and he goes over through with endless sources as he usually does about the different that talked about this said that one said but he concludes the answer as follows. He says, "Although all of these matters that the have brought regarding the tinoishbah pertaining to the secular people are relevant in remote places that do not have any Judaism and most of the people there are idoltors. This is not relevant to our places, meaning to our Jewish communities whereby these people see synagogues, bid, the uh the uh study halls, and they see with their own eyes many religious Jews that keep Shabbat like says, "May there be more." And yet these secular Jews are still not deterred from desecrating Shabbat. Therefore, you cannot consider them, but rather consider them like idoltors. So one way or the other whether you want to be like the few that have said or the vast majority of like and countless others that said there's no tinob today like said no tinob today and so on regardless do something about it help people Where can you learn it from? Abrau who's better than au from au is started from au is started and this is certainly an important insight important addition to the subject at hand. But the subject at hand about Hashem knowing the future, where do we see it in the param in chapter 15 verse number 16 after the war and Abraham destroys all the enemies gets back Lot. The king of Zdom offers him a bunch of money. Says, I don't even want a shoelace from you. So I don't want you to ever say to people, I made you rich. This, by the way, is the reason why a rabbi should never ask people for money. You could have campaigns, you could send people links, but never beg people for money. Why? Because once you start asking people for money, they stop listening to you. And if you really want to help them, that should never be the case. Either way, the Torah tells us that after that makes a covenant, a special covenant with Abrau, the covenant between parts where he promises the that he's not only going to get to start the nation of Israel, he's going to have a son, but he promises him endless blessings. But in there is told that it's going to be a process. Well, first your descendants will be aliens in a land not their own. And they will serve them and they will oppress them for 400 years. And when is this blessing going to be fulfilled and take the next place? In verse number 16, it says, "And the fourth generation shall return here," meaning here, meaning the land of Israel, "For the iniquity of the Amorite shall not yet be full until then." Here unveils a secret about himself that's not really a secret. It's that he knows the future. He knows the future. And of course the the investigated every little tiny part of the Torah, every nuance in the Torah, every verse, every letter, every part of it throughout their entire lives. Ask the question, if Hashem knows that the Amorites are going to sin by the fourth generation, doesn't that mean that he determined it? In essence, he he is in control of choice. So, it's not really free choice. It's a very important question that people ask all the time. If Hashem knows the future, does do I really have free will? Well, I don't know. Take your hand, slap yourself in in the face. Did Hashem decide? Now, you decided that. Obviously, you decided. So, there is free choice. But still, you see that Hashem knows the future. So, how does that work? Shalom asked to brisk this question and he said although we have a mitzvah to have a inem to have faith in Hashem we also have knowledge that Hashem certainly created the world for pure logic. These beautiful world and this creation did not come from nothing like the the people that choose not to believe that call themselves atheists. Of course, Hashem created this. But yet we have a mitzvah to have. So where does fit in? THAT'S WHAT RAV SHAK ASKED the briskav. And the brisk shalom said an extraordinary answer. Say little and do much. And he says as follows is where the mind no longer understands his ways. Like the example here with Abrau where tells Abra that the Amorites they're going to sin and only after they sin to the point of filling their measure will they deserve to get punished and get destroyed and kicked out of the land. says, "My dear Raime Fraadik an extraordinary which hashem just published another books and that means we have three books on the way to distribute. One of them has already been distri being distributed in Israel about the Mashika. two of them should arrive in Israel and in uh in America over the next week. We stopped counting how many books he's published so far and each one is greater than the next. So Frank says past, present, and future are all things that are determined by time. The past is what already happened. The present is what's happening. The future is what will happen. These are all things that are tied to time. The says in 10 statements, Hashem created the world, but if you count from the verses, you find nine. So then Mishna answers, yes, because you missed the one. Where's the first one? The first one is the word which the Ramban says also means with wisdom. But was actually a word of creation. What did Hashem create the word with the word? He created time. He created time because before that there was no time because it was just there was just nothing but Hashem and he's not subject to time. He's not subject to time. He's not subject to space. But that was created with humans do not have an understanding of two things. Timelessness and spacelessness. something that doesn't take up space. But gave us things in his creation for us to at least get a idea, not a complete understanding, but an idea of what it is. For example, when it comes to spacelessness, something that doesn't take up space, we say that Hashem takes up everything. There's nothing else but him. The whole world is him. He's everywhere. He's omnipresent. But yet there's nothing physical. The says that brings a verse from about the measurements of the Mishkan the tabernacle. It says that the kureshim was a measure of 20 ammut. 20 ammote for argument sake is about 40 feet. between 30 and 40 feet depending on which uh you pin by whether it's each amma is one and 1/2 ft or almost two feet needless to say let's just for argument sake let's just call it 20 ft from wall to wall the says took up no space how do we Because the Torah tells us that kesh was put in the middle of the Mishkan, in the middle of the keshim, that was 20 ammot wide and the kesh itself was 10. But yet when they counted how much empty space is on each side of the kesh it was 10 amote 10 here and 10 here. Doesn't make any sense. Why? Because logically speaking if it was put exactly in the middle if you have 20 and this is 10 that leaves 10 left. So if you put it exactly in the middle, it should be five here and five there. But noes was in the middle, 10 here, 10 there, which in essence means that there's 30 on. But it wasn't 30, it was 20. How could this be? says the kadesh was in such a high level of spirituality that it was not subject to time and space like we are used to especially space it was spaceless took up no space another example is the clouds that surrounded is in the desert. The clouds which are were on such a high level of spirituality of kadusha that if somebody looked through the cloud they could see through anything. So if let's say somebody had a cup like the cup that you could get the BHOP bhop.org Um, this you can't see through this, but if you put this right next to the cloud, the cloud would make this see-through. The cloud would make this see-through. And you could see that there's tea in here. These are different things that show that when it comes to things that the more connected they are, the less they are subject to time and space. In fact, for many years, the nations thought that air air whether it be different gases or the air we breathe in didn't take up didn't have any measure until the philosophers and Scientists found that even air has weight. Now, they could have saved themselves the time and the agony to discover that because it's actually already written in a Torah. In the book of Job chapter 28 verse 25 it literally says making a prescribed weight for the wind. Meaning the wind has weight. If it has weight that means you can measure it and therefore you can quantify it. This is [snorts] not possible where Hashem has no image and no likeness of an image. As the Rambam says inf has no body and no likeness of a body. In fact, he says something that we always have to remember, especially with all of the heresy that's out there that tries to confuse people that the Rambam writes in chapter one number seven, since Hashem is not a body, the circumstances associated with bodies that produce division and separation are not relevant to him and therefore it is impossible for him to be anything other than one. Furthermore, he says in number eight that a body cannot exist in two places simultaneously subject to the laws of nature. So the brisk says this timelessness, spacelessness of Hashem that is beyond your comprehension. That's where amuna comes in. That's where amuna comes in because it's beyond our mind to understand it. When it comes to timelessness, one of the ways that gave us to understand timelessness is dreams. As the says, most dreams are nonsense that is influenced by the things that a person sees throughout their uh waking uh hours. But I know people that they have very very vivid dreams that uh they feel like is uh pretty much like another life. Why? because they feel like they went to sleep and they have a whole thing that happened. They went to sleep and then all of a sudden they see these people that are trying to go against them and they're fighting against them and they keep moving from place to place and then after that they have a discussion with the other side say leave us alone and we'll leave you alone and they decide okay you know what we're going to move this place and there's a whole thing that goes on for weeks and months and in some cases years I met one person over the holiday said I literally had an experience where it felt like not hours, not days, not weeks, but literally thousands and thousands of years of difficulties and different things that he experienced. Of course, this is a very rare scenario. Most people they have a dream and they feel like they went through weeks or months of a period of life. They had, you know, raised kids, they got married, they uh, I don't know, had a job, they had problems, they had fighting, they had all types of things. And they wake up in the morning exhausted and surprised that there's another LIFE HERE. WHOA, WHAT HAPPENED? They thought that this other life was real. And sometimes they wake up and they look at the watch and it's the middle of the night and they realize what they've only been sleeping for 15 minutes but the dream felt like it was for months. Why? Because in your dreams the which the say in the mind is in the brain is not subject to the same rules of nature. It's not subject to space and time. And therefore the mind goes and lives and has these experiences that could feel like it's weeks and months and years and so on. And gave us that in order for us to understand timelessness. Why do we need to understand timelessness? is right. Rabime says the moment that you can define something by space or time that means that it's not applicable to Hashem. The past, the present, and the future are not applicable to Hashem. Because anything that is subject to time and space is a creation and not the creator that is above it all. Anything that has a beginning has an end and therefore it's not applicable to Hashem. So when Hashem says in Besit in chapter 15 verse1 17 that we talked about that the fourth generation shall return here for the iniquity of the Amorites shall not yet be full until then. It means that Hashem is already in the future. But to him it's the present. In essence, Hashem is telling ofu his knowledge of the reality of the future. He did not determine the future. Just because he sees it does not mean that he influences it. And of course, you're going to try to understand that. But it's impossible to understand timelessness and spacelessness. The same way that you understand that your hand is in front of you when you're looking at it. The same way that you understand the different things that are facts of your life. It's not possible for you to understand timelessness and spacelessness. And that the briskerv says that's where amuna comes in. That is where amuna comes in to have because your mind simply does not have the ability to comprehend these things. Now another way that Kadesh Bahu gifted us the ability to understand omniresence that he is everywhere is in a relatively interesting and recent discovery and much further development in recent years called quantum mechanics. I have a about the last year or so or maybe a little longer I've been looking into quantum mechanics. Whenever I can't read Torah, I try to occupy my mind with something else that's useful. And I actually happened to uh have a student that uh told me recently that that's actually his field of work. That's what he's been spent his whole life uh studying and working on. And of course, we're not going to give you a whole about quantum mechanics right now, but this is how he he wrote me an explanation briefly of what it is quantum when it pertains to quantum uh uh computers and so on. And he says as follows. A regular computer for it to encode the word chuva. The computer would physically have to produce a string of digits that are ones and zeros. He actually gave the exact ones which is one 0 0 11 one and so on and so forth. And then the computer then sends it to the screen. that translates the string back into letters that we can recognize. Physically speaking, there are several ways of producing that signal. The most common way is to use electric current where no current means zero and some current means one. This is a real physical and measurable quantity that could be used to encode information. An electrical current is basically a huge collection of electrons. And while measuring current, we don't particularly care what each individual electron is doing. The real world, however, is a much stranger than that. It's much stranger than that. Why? If we start looking at the individual electrons, we see that their existence isn't as clear-cut where the electron is here or it's somewhere else. No, in essence, these electrons choose to pop in and out of existence and seemingly random appear elsewhere and randomly exist in both places at once. Although it sounds like science fiction, it's immeasurable and well-known scientific fact and the overall phenomenon is called quantum mechanics. And he went further about how this is applicable to to other things. And actually I'll read another couple of lines also to show you his mind also being connected to Torah. He says people had the idea of using individual electrons or any other object that acts as quantum as storage of information so that we could encode a word like chuva and also a word like at the same. It defies classical knowledge but it's completely possible for quantum information to encode these two words at the same time. See here you have a very sophisticated explanation of something. How does this help us understand Hashem a little bit better? Is when says everything is mine. There's nothing else but Hashem. Hashem is omnipresent meaning that he is here. He's where you are. He's in somewhere else. He is everywhere. He's in your mind. He knows what's in your mind. He knows what's in your heart, which we will learn later on in this para. He is everywhere at the same time. For a human mind to understand something being everywhere is impossible because it's physical and therefore if it's here it cannot be somewhere else at the same time. It's either here or it's there. You can say that it could travel really fast back and forth but to say it's in two place at the SAME TIME IS NOT POSSIBLE. WHY? Because it's subject to the laws of nature. And therefore, gave us the discovery of quantum mechanics where you can actually see in the creation and you can measure it and you can influence it. And the goal is to do very very big things with it by simply understanding the discovery that one electron can be in multiple places at the same time. It's the same electron and it's not traveling back and forth. It's the same electron, but it could be in multiple places. Another extraordinary thing that the Torah tells us that allowed us to learn from different creations. Now when it comes to this decree specifies that it's the even though there are many seven Canaanite nations it's the Amorite nation that will have to sin in essence fill the measure to the point where they're removed. Why the Amorite nation? If we look at the Torah, we'll see that the Amorite nation is constantly mentioned in the entire Tanakh in Deuteronomy in the book of Judges. The prophet Amos talks about them. Yeshua dealt with them. It's constantly mentioned. Why? Because the Amorite nation was the greatest among those. So much so that their leader, their original leader, Sikhon was already alive at the time of Noah. That's what says what Rashi says. Sikhan was already alive at the time of Noah and actually made a deal with Noah to save him. But because he was such a huge giant, he could not fit inside the TVA, the ark. So he was permitted to hold on to it. There was also the animal that was huge that also could not fit into the ta and had to uh be tied to it and in essence walk behind it and a would feed it through a little window and that was a baby. But Sikhon also was not led into the TVA, but he lived for a long time until he went to war with Moshe. And this was an enormous giant. And his nation was a nation of giants that were powerful beyond any comprehension. Before Moshe Rabenu goes to war with Og, the king of Bashan, Hashem says to Mosher Rabenu, "Don't be afraid. I'll be with you and you'll destroy him just like I helped you withhon." Because in the natural law of things, it is impossible for anybody to defeat or the Amorites. They're just too powerful. They're too big. So what brought down this nation if they were so powerful and their leader at least lived for so many years? We're talking about well over a thousand years, couple thousand years. What brought them down? says the Ramban here is telling us nothing could have brought them down. No nation could have defeated them in a physical way, in a natural way. And the only reason they went down is because of their sins and their violations of the Noahide laws. Whether it's immorality, beastiality, idolatry, and so on. But who tells even with these nations that go against me, I don't punish them right away. I allow them time, but if they continue sinning, eventually they fill up the measure. In so many words, think of it as let's say there's a cup and so long as the sins do not hit do not fill up the cup to the top the nation continues to exist and even prosper. But the moment they get to the top of the cup like the Amorite nation destroyed. This is the reason why when foolish people say that the IDF is the only thing that's protecting Israel from being destroyed. This is 100% heresy. Chapter one number seven says a story where he was the ultimate Kiru rabbi. not only wrote the Mishna but taught to especially when he discovered the power of Kiru when he saw the heavenly ways of how they're treating his nephew who was a student where all that sadikim have place in heaven and they have the ability to study at the yeshiva of Mosherenu at the yeshiva of the yeshiva of Yaku at the yeshiva of hem. But before they're able to go from place to place, they need permission and they need angels to take them. But who did Kiru HIS WHOLE LIFE DID NOT NEED PERMISSION. He can go wherever he wants like he owns the place. When Rebados found us out, he literally ran into the street looking to help somebody do chuvat, looking for somebody secular. Today, you wouldn't have to look very far, unfortunately. But during the lifetime of his nephew, Rabbi Kad sent Rabi Rabi and Rabi Ami to Israel to go do Kiru. They went there and they got to a city and they want teach want to see. And the people there, the leaders over there says, "No, we don't need everything. We don't need anything. We have everything we need. Thank you. Powerful. Okay. Rich." So the asked them, "Bring us the protectors of your city. Bring us your IDF." So of course they were proud of this. They brought them their top soldiers. Each one was bigger AND MORE POWERFUL THAN THE NEXT. GIANTS enormous and powerful. Look at these soldiers. He says these are your meaning these are your protectors of the city. These are the destroyers OF THE CITY. THEY'RE GOING TO BRING DESTRUCTION TO your city. They're not going to protect it. So the people said, "We don't understand. You asked us to bring you the protectors of the city. We're bringing you the soldiers." Who do you mean? Says, "We don't mean the soldiers that go fight. We mean the protectors of the city." Which where are your Torah scholars? They are the real protectors of the city. The problem with people When they don't understand what the power of the Torah is, they think that the army or the alliance with other governments [snorts] or the weapons or technology or money is what's protecting the people. They don't realize that when they see war, terrorism, their reaction is, "Oh, if there's war, there's terrorism. We need more soldiers. We need more soldiers." Even though they don't even have enough equipment for the current soldiers that they have, they still they want to draft more of the yeshiva. They don't realize that terrorism, that war is not happening because you have a lacking in soldiers. It's happening because the people are Shabbat. It's happening because there are heretics. It's happening because people are not observing the Torah. You don't need more soldiers because in fact in many cases it's the leaders and it's the soldiers that are the destroyers of the city, not the protectors of the city. Because as long as you're violating Shabbat, so long as you're not following the Torah, you're the one that's bringing the terrorism. It's you're filling up the cup with sins and Hashem brings a decree in order to save the nation. He forces us to do chuva. When a person hears that initially like, "Yeah, but what do you mean we need an army?" No one said we don't need an army. Even Mosher Abenu had an army. David had an army. But if you look at what our forefathers did, a thousand soldiers and a thousand people praying for them and learning Torah for their sake. Who's really winning the battle? The combination of both. For every soldier that's fighting with a gun, there has to be a soldier that's learning Torah for his sake. Why? Because we're not fighting in accordance to the laws of nature in comparison to Israel. The entire WORLD IS IS THE AMORITES. THEY'RE ALL BIGGER THAN US. THEY'RE ALL MORE POWERFUL. You can say no. They have the best army. They have the best nothing. We saw in October 7th what happens when a kadosh baku in essence hides his face. All the budgets in the world and the weapons in the world mean nothing. When a kadosh doesn't help us, we have nothing. The entire world is the Amorites relative to Israel. They're all too powerful. They're all too big. The way we have survived is only by the mercy of and therefore a person has to know that even if you don't understand this doesn't mean you have to go against it because you don't understand's omniresence. You don't understand's endlessness. You don't understand. But we have an obligation to believe it. Another place we see how knows our thoughts. page seven, they ask, "How do we know?" Or page 17, 178, uh, "How do we know that the entire Torah was written with prophecy?" Says, "For we, we could see it." Why? It says what Haman was thinking. Another example of that is our we know of course gave us the entire Torah but the proved that even the other 19 books of the Tanakh were also written with prophecy with because you see that it's written people's thoughts but here au is being told by Kadosh Bahud that he will have a son. In chapter 17 verse1 17 it says and a threw himself upon his face and laughed and he thought shall a child be born to a 100year-old man shall salah 90year-old woman give birth and said to God oh that Ishmael might live before you and God said nonetheless your wife Sarah will bear you a son and you will you shall call his name and I will fulfill my covenant with him as an everlasting covenant for an offspring after him. So here is in essence we're seeing the communication in two ways. One is he spoke to Hashem directly. We see Abraham said to Hashem but before that it says and Ara thought and Hashem TELLS US WHAT DID ARA THINK? Shall a child be born to a hundred year old man? Should Sah a 90year-old woman give birth? So this is why one of our 13 principles of faith is to not only believe that Hashem created the world and he's only one, but also that Hashem knows our thoughts. And that's why the says the the thoughts of sin are worse than the sin. The thoughts of sin are worse than the sin. And explains that since then is in the mind and Hashem knows what's on your mind. When you sin by thinking of immorality, all types of things, it's worse than a sin itself. Why? Because the only one that knows about it is in essence this is the between you and of course shows us that even though doubts questions how could this be I'm 100 years old is 90 years old he didn't punish him for it he didn't rebuke him for it but later on when he hears about it. She said something and therefore rebuked her. It's different making a statement versus thinking. Needless to say, we see from here that is limitless. He's the laws of nature are not applicable to him. This is a very important and fundamental foundation of Torah, of Judaism, of good. Because the moment a person applies the laws of nature to Hashem, they're applying limitation to him. This is why we fight so hard against the heretics because they all have the same exact strategy which is to limit Hashem. Saying he has an arm, saying he gets uh he needs something. All of these things are not applicable to Hashem. Because the moment you subject the laws of nature, the limitations of humanity, of creation, the moment you subject those to Hashem, not only are you an idol worshipper according to a heretic according to, but also you're giving yourself a license to do whatever you license to do whatever you want to say whatever you want because if he is if he needs something then I can decide whether I want to give it to him or not. If he is limited, then he's like me. and all of these convoluted ideologies that keep returning from generation to generation, whether it was from the the Greeks or the uh the Christianity or the other idolatrous religions throughout history or heretics out there, the uh the musculim, the uh enlightenment movement that uh you know with the with the Zionists after them, all of them have this common denominator which is to start off their heresy, start off their plan, build their entire plan on limiting Hashem, subjecting him to laws of nature, subject him to the same laws they are that are applicable to them, to the measly human being that the moment he has an ingrown toenail, he can't function. The moment he has a stomach ache, he can't do anything. They're subjecting these laws to Hashem in different ways. So how could a person arrive at the right conclusion? Understand this. We have an obligation to serve Hashem regardless of whether we understand or don't understand. We also have a mitzvah meaning we get a reward to have a to have when things are not uh so uh so simple to believe or in fact impossible for us to believe to to understand and therefore tells us you see when I told him that he's going to be blessed that he's going to have all of these amazing things. It says he believed it and it counted as righteousness for him. Meaning that in chapter 15 verse number six and he trusted in Hashem and he reckoned it to him as righteousness. Hashem promises Abraham that he will have a son. Hashem promises of that he will have more descendants than the scar the stars in the sky. You're promising this to a hundred-year-old MAN. IT DOESN'T MAKE ANY SENSE. You're promising him something THAT HE'S BEEN TRYING FOR A HUNDRED YEARS. DOESN'T MAKE AND FAILED. Doesn't make ANY SENSE. BUT THE MOMENT TOLD US TO testifies on behalf of that trusted hem believed it with ALL OF HIS HEART WITHOUT A DOUBT AND HE TRUSTED IN Hashem and therefore Hashem reckoned to him as righteousness. Meaning that despite the fact that some of the things are beyond your ability to comprehend, having amuna when your mind no longer is able to digest or even understand things whether it's how Hashem knows your thoughts, how he knows the future and without changing free will uh you know how uh you know before the after all of the different things, but yet you believe and you follow and you do what Hashem says. That in itself is the mitzvah that counted as his merit that will still carry on till this day. And this is what is supposed to be in every Jewish mind in every human mind at all times. Hashem gave us different tools in the world to give us a little bit of an idea of how things work. Whether it's the Aona cadesh that's doesn't take up space or it's the dreams that are timeless or it's the quantum mechanics where an electron is in two places at the same time or countless other things that you can see in creation where Hashem gave us an idea of how these impossible to understand things are at least understandable to a certain degree but they're still going to get to a point where you're not going to understand why does this uh seemingly or why is this verifiably righteous person suffering so much? Why is this wicked person prospering so much? Why did this happen TO ME? WHY DID THAT HAPPEN TO ME? WHY DID THIS HAPPEN TO HER? WHY DID THAT happen to her? That's where amuna comes in. The moment your mind cannot understand, do yourself the favor. Do yourself to kindness and have because it'll count as righteousness for you which is worth much more than you can possibly imagine. We don't have to understand in order to have ine and will do the rest. This is some of the things that we learned this week and uh now you can ask some questions and will give us the answers. You know, it took a lot of time and effort to study for this lecture and every lecture changes my life a little bit and I hope it does to you as well. If you're enjoying it, please make sure to like, subscribe and share with people that you care about, people that you know could benefit from it. you may end up changing their life. Thanks again for learning with me and we'll continue growing together. Now, back to the lecture. The Torah says to kill a baby and that's very sad. U Torah doesn't say specifically go kill babies. The Torah says that if the uh Amalecch or the different nations that we're fighting against uh if we're at war with them, there's a uh during war there's going to be collateral damage. So if that means uh women and children, then that's that's what it is. Bahu doesn't allow us to risk our lives like the foolish government of Israel does with the Israeli soldiers where they tell them to tell the enemy the plan before we attack. Tell the enemy we're about to bomb them in this building. Tell the enemy we're about to uh go attack here before we go there so there's less collateral damage. This is stupidity. This is pure stupidity and it leads to unfortunately many deaths of Israeli soldiers and it's not something that any other government or any other army in all of history has ever done says when it's war there's going to be collateral damage and in fact you have to destroy you have to destroy in this way that's how it's that's how it's commanded by Hashem and the reason for that is because First and foremost, your life comes first before your enemy. Number two, in the endless world of Hashem, in the endless world of God, the there is no baby. All of the souls started with Adamish, the first human being. All of the souls were in in him and after that they were dispersed among the people that were born. But then the world restarted again with Noah and his family. And all of the souls kept reincarnating each time a person lived but did not complete the mission that Hashem put them in this world to complete. Then they had to try it again. Unless they violated things so badly that Hashem destroyed them or Hashem put them in a permanent punishment like gay cafa and so on. But many people don't understand that you're not here in this world for the first time. Nobody in the world is here for the first time. Only rarely does Hashem bring a new soul to the world that hasn't been here. But still it was in the original but it was at Mount Si but a new soul meaning that it's something that didn't go through the whole reincarnation after reincarnation and every generation or every few generations and so on. So a person has to understand that there is no baby. Yes, the it's a baby physically. It's small before it becomes big, but the soul that's in that human being has been here for thousands of years, multiple times, and it's only here again because it failed in fulfilling the will of Hashem many times before and therefore it has to come back again to do it. That's why when somebody told me uh asked me a question about uh if uh they uh lend money to somebody and that person doesn't give it back to them, should they just forgive it? Forgive them or should they uh keep chasing them after the money? And the answer is as follows. If you lend somebody some money and we're not talking about huge amount of money where it's a uh uh you know destroys your life and you have to go to uh lawyers and government and so on. We're talking about let's just say you gave uh you have the habit of let's say giving 100 bucks, 200 bucks, whatever is small that's but still meaningful wherever you are in the world. And uh let's say you have somebody that you know and you go back and forth. You give them 100 bucks, 200 bucks. And uh now this person doesn't pay you back. And you see that even when they have the money, they're not paying you back. And you see even when you ask for the money, they're not paying you back. What should you do? If you can't get the money back that way after you've asked multiple times and you see that the person does not intend to give you the money back even when they have it, then you should forgive them. In so many words, give up on the money. And the reason why is because if you don't give up on the money, both you and that person will have to be reincarnated back into this world in order for them to pay you back the money. As we learned in many different examples, one of the famous examples is a story of the Baltov that went to one of his students who was a owner of uh a horse ranch had many horses, sold horses. And the Balmtov visited his student and told him, I want to buy a horse from you. Said, "Sure, Rabbi, you don't have to buy. I'll I'll give it to you for free." He goes, "No, no, no. I want to buy it." "Okay, Rabbi, whatever you want." And the rabbi looks and he points at one horse and all of a sudden he sees his students face become white. He said, "Oh, Rabbi, ANY OTHER HORSE? I HAVE HUNDREDS of horses here. ANY OTHER HORSE BUT THAT ONE? I just have this horse for six months. He's such a good horse. He's such a good worker. I don't have the dumb to work. He just wants to work non-stop. He's such a good horse. You could take all the multiple horses, just not that one. And the B symptoms says, "No, no, I want only that one." And of course, the student says to the rabbi, "Okay, Rabbi, that's the one you want because you are who you are to me and I love you. You can buy it." The BMPto gives him the money. He says, "Now it's mine, right?" "Yes, yes, it's yours." He goes, "You sure it's mine?" Yes, it's mine. The horse becomes his. The moment after that transaction, the bal says to his student, "Let me ask you something. Did you have a friend that recently died?" She, "Oh, yeah. Yeah, Rabbi. I actually uh just uh six months ago I had a friend that died. He was a really good friend of mine. Knew him for over 20 years." Says, "You like that friend?" He goes, "Oh, I love that friend. He was a great friend. Really was sad for uh you know that I lost him. Said, "Did he owe you any money?" The guy thinks for a moment. He goes, "Yeah, but it's nothing. He was a good friend of mine anyway. It wasn't even a lot of money. Only be uh $50." says, "So the B symptoms says to him, do you forgive him for that money that he owed you and died without paying you back?" The guy says, "Yeah, of course I forgive him. I don't care. It's fine. I wish I had him. I don't care about the money. It's fine." Cuz say it. Say that you forgive him. Say, "You're forgiven. You're forgiven. You're forgiven. And the guy says, and the moment he said the third, the horse that the Balmp just bought drops dead. The guy shocked. Whoa. What happened here? says, "I saw that the soul of your friend had to reincarnate back into this world with a way to pay you back that $50." And therefore, in his mercy, put him into a horse so he can work for you until he earns the equivalent of $50. And now that you've forgiven him, you've helped him complete his tikun. For a measly 50 bucks, a person had to come back as a horse. The first time I said this lecture years, this story years ago, one of the people that watched this said, uh, "Wow, that's really interesting." and she had a cat and uh it was an unusual cat and she said the same she did the same thing next to the cat. She went to the cat's ear and she said, "As soon as I finished it, the cat got up, ran out, and got hit by a truck or a bus and died." Now, for those that are familiar, you probably have seen us when we talked about this before. We published it as a story years ago. Anyone that's interested in reading the story from the woman herself wrote it, you could uh just send me a message and I'll send it to you. But even more so, a person that has a hard time believing some of the stories, but at least knows that I don't make stuff up. You can know I I did it one time. I had a dog, a really good dog. I had him for 16 years. His name was Bully. And this dog was an amazing dog. Didn't have a mean bone in his body. And we went through a lot of ups and downs in life together. But I always knew that this dog was different. I had a dog when I was a kid. And I knew that this dog was different. Anytime I would have questions about things, I would ask about it, of course. And I did it. I said to bully and the moment I told him that, he was perfectly healthy. He was strong. He could have lived another 50 years, at least the way he looked. But the next day, he was sitting on the couch like he did often. And when he tried to get off the couch like he did a million times before, he slipped and fell off the couch, which again, it's a regular couch. Bully at one point when he was younger, he was in my car with me and I used to have him. He would sit in the front seat with me. He was in the passenger seat. I was in the driver's seat. and he liked to look out the window. One time we were in the highway and for whatever reason or another, we're driving fast. We're not driving uh 5 miles an hour. We're driving. Bully decides while I'm driving to jump out of the window. I was I had the leash in my hand and I had to I had the instant reflex to let it go because had I held it on obviously that would have been the worst thing. But I was sure that he died and I was seeing him in the rearview mirror that he's rolling and then got up like nothing happened as if he was just jumping off of a couch. Another time a car hit him. I saw with my own eyes, nothing happened. He was a very uh brave and uh healthy dog. So him getting off the couch, nothing. But that day after I told him got off the couch, fell and that was the end. Don't try this just because you want to experiment. It's not with every dog or every cat or every other animal. But the point I'm trying to tell you is that sometimes a person has to understand that things are beyond your comprehension. They're beyond your ability to understand. The world is much bigger than you can possibly imagine. So much so that the say that if a person really was able to see all of the things that are actually next to him at every given moment, they would simply lose their mind. But does not allow us to see everything that's really next to us because it'll destroy our lives. The point being is that when it comes to seeing things like what Torah says to destroy the enemy, even if it's women and children and have no mercy, understand that the one that determined what mercy is and what good is and what bad is, is the same one that's writing what's in the Torah. And since he knows what good and bad is, what mercy is and what it's not, who deserves mercy and who does not, who deserves good and who does not, if he wrote it, then you can be sure that he is right. Even if we don't understand, it's hard for me to see. as a reflection. So it makes hard to here we go. Is do that or religion mentioned in the Torah as we Jews are religion or following the Torah? It's one and the same. When Bahu gave us the Torah, Mount Si before Mount Si, there wasn't Judaism, there was idolatry in the world. And then there was the belief of the Israelites, which was in one god. Meaning that before Mount Si, there was either belief in one God by Yakovu, his descendants, the the and obviously all the Israelites and there was the rest of the world. There were different forms of idolatry. Some served different idols that they made. Some served the stars, the the moon and so on. But there wasn't an official religion. At Mount Si, we receive the Torah, the written and the oral Torah. And the Torah is the book of instructions. That's what the Torah means is instructions of how to serve Hashem, how to fulfill your purpose. What is your purpose? And in essence, this entire book of laws, book of instructions is how to live. How to live for your own benefit. This is when Judaism was born at Mount Sai because before that we didn't have the obligation to follow the laws of the Torah. But the moment we receive the Torah, we had the obligation of following the laws. So if you want to call those uh that religion or you want to call it Torah, it's in essence synonymous. If you're following the Torah, you're following the religion. If you're violating the Torah, you're violating the religion. If you're religious, that means you're following the Torah. If you're not religious, that means you're ignoring or you're violating the Torah. So, it's in essence one and the same. What does mad mean? Mat with a T is a needle. Mad with a T is a needle. is one. But Mahad doesn't have a uh it's not a word. Why is the word Elohim plural? Um, Elohim can be plural, can be singular, but again, Hashem is not uh Hashem is not plural or singular. He's he's one. Either way, the word Elohim doesn't only uh mean God. It's uh the word Elohim in essence is closer to uh master. And uh so for example, the Hashem says to Moshe Rabenu in the Torah that you will be elimin part of the ten commandments. uh do not have other Elohim meaning don't have other gods. Don't don't you know worship idols. Uh there's also uh the word Elohim also is another name for different for angels. Uh so Elohim is not a uh the unique name for Hashem. The the unique name for Hashem is the tetrogrammatan which is the ud and the nav. It's a four-letter name. Okay. Uh, for the person that wrote the question in Portuguese, I'm sorry I don't speak Portuguese. If you could translate it and then copy and paste it and send it again, I can understand the question. When it comes to harvesting, how is that was done at the time of the uh beta mikdash? How is that one? Oh, okay. So, question is, we learned that the 39 milot, the 39 uh uh things that we did to build the beta mikdash are what were forbidden from doing on Shabbat. So, for example, harvesting wheat, how is that or different crops, how is that done at the time of the bet? So first off know that there was the kto uh the kto the incense offering which uh actually I'll show you something really interesting in our prayer every day as safharti Jews. This is uh not done by most Ashkinazim. Uh it's not their custom but Safhari Jews do the every day. uh before we get to Amida in uh and after in Shahid it's both uh before and after in Min it's uh it's before and the Kobanote is a segment of the Torah uh we read in book of Exodus chapter 34-36 and then verses 7 and 8 and in there this is uh the uh Hashem commanding Moshe to make the incense offering. And in there it says the uh uh this was obviously done the mikdash. This is one way that the uh 39 were used to make the but uh it's a gula that I've discussed extensively. uh the uh the Benish said it and has probably a 800 page discussing the and the malaito and the as you're saying the uh 11 spices or or or uh uh incense parts of the kto there's the atsoi the balsamipoin clove kbona which is calbinum galbinum levon now is frankincense uh it's a uh the mo which is myrrh the kia which is casia n which is uh spikener kum which is saffron cost which is costous uh kilua kilufa is uh mushkat nut bark and kilam is cinnamon. So these are the spices that uh were part of the now you're not allowed to combine them. That's but teach that uh it's a to have this and actually point at them point at each one and point at it. each one the the part of the we read the uh tell us the measure of each one how much was made to to make the the incense offering and uh the reason why I bought this it was very expensive is because there's a special zula for and for many many other good things to point at the uh the actual incense offerings when you're saying them. Now for people that don't have the ability to get something like this uh then uh the say that you should count it in your finger every time you say uh uh uh each one of the incense offerings. So you say you put your hand So it's 11 different spices that uh were made made the point being is is that this is a very uh precious uh thing that uh that I got uh in the last couple of years. uh anyone that's uh interested in it, you could actually get it from the living Torah museum uh sells this, but I'm sure you can get the the ingredients I just mentioned on your own if you want. It's probably be cheaper. It's just a uh this was a very nice uh setup uh and uh eliminates confusion of, you know, which one is which so you don't point at the wrong one. For me, it was very much a bargain to uh to to get something like this. And also got one for my dear Rav uh and uh but uh I'm not you know I'm not I don't sell this. Uh but the point is is that uh there is a uh to point at them if you can and if you can't because you don't have them then it's uh to to count them on your fingers when you're as you're saying it. Uh it's a very powerful for a lot of other good things. Uh so uh one of the ways that the melobat uh were done were to harvest these uh these incense offering. Another way is also to make the the different things to make the stones to make the uh uh the different things. They needed uh it wasn't like today where you have uh cement and and the things that you have today. So in those days they had to make everything on their own. Rabbi, what are the first steps to convert to Judaism? What's your advice on how to reach out to Kabad Rabbi to start learning? Okay, I'll answer the first question. Um the the second question before the first kabad rabbis do not deal with conversions. Uh sometimes they accept somebody that wants to convert into their community but they will not sponsor the person to conversion even if they're there for four or five years. This is the general uh um mentality of pretty the majority of kabat. Of course, there are rare cases here and there where a kabad rabbi will sponsor somebody for conversion, but generally speaking, Kabad has this policy, this, you know, unspoken policy where they don't deal with converts. So to go try to convert while being part of a kabad, you will find yourself where they may accept you to come, they may accept you to to donate, they may even accept you to, you know, to sit down with them and and be there for 5 years, but they will not take you to the bed to actually convert. you'll have to find a different rabbi to do that. And that simply just delays your conversion. So if you want to convert, you'll have to find a regular orthodox synagogue uh that uh to become part of and and to have that rabbi convert you. Uh the first question as far as what's the first steps? Conversion requires two main things. One is knowledge. Two is life changes. Knowledge means you have to learn different things that are relevant to conversion. If you want to know what that is, you can go to our website bzem.org. Over there there's a section of that's called learning and under that tab there's something called the free PDFs or free uh ebooks and one of those ebooks is a conversion guide. That's a guide after dealing with conversions and helping many many people convert over the years. uh we made many lectures about it uh and uh discussed it often. So we made a guide where this information that's there is everything you need to know about conversion. Uh so you just open the guide, you click each thing that you click on, it opens up either a video or a recommended book to buy uh that you'll need to know for conversion. It tells you the subjects that you'll be uh you'll need to know. Uh and um that conversion guide is in essence will help you attain that knowledge. Of course, you have to study. There are some people that give some rabbis that give and some regular people that give uh online courses or face-to-face courses with uh with conversion. Um some people have a good experience with it, some people don't. It's certainly not cheap. Uh but either way, you'll need to learn it. If you can learn it on your own, that's one way. If you uh you could afford to have somebody teach you, uh that's another way. But either way, there's no obligation to uh uh to take a course. You could learn everything on your own. Um but many people prefer to have somebody go over with them uh at least some of the material. Now, as far as uh the knowledge, that's how you attain the knowledge. The life changes are well, you have to start fulfilling that knowledge, which means that you will need to move to a Jewish community. Uh so if you live in the state in the US, you'll need to move move to a place where there's a Jewish community with a bedin uh whether it's in Los Angeles or it's in New York uh uh New York City or it's a uh in Florida or in other places in the US that have Jewish communities with a bedin or in Israel or in Australia or in London, different places around the world have it. There's not that many uh in the world. Uh but uh you know certainly uh there are uh you know there are options. You'll need to move to a Jewish community. You'll need to develop a relationship with the local rabbi to you at that time. Uh let them know obviously your intentions to convert and so on. And if they're willing and able, they'll uh you know they'll guide you until you're ready and you'll be able to convert. It's a process. It takes time. And uh you know it's not something that's done overnight. We're not the Christianity where all you need to do is just dip in some water and uh that you become Christian or in uh in Islam where you just say a few words, you become Muslim. That's not how Jewish conversion works. It's a process. Uh in essence, the whole goal uh of the uh the bedin, the Jewish court uh and the sponsoring rabbi, all the people that are involved with, you know, uh helping people convert is to make sure that the people that are converting are able and willing to uh to live a Jewish life after conversion. Many people are very excited about the idea of converting but then once they uh see what it is uh they realize it's much more difficult than they thought and some people uh you know choose not to convert. Many people continue and uh many people don't but either way it requires two things. One of them is the knowledge and the other one is uh the life changes and even that I discuss in our conversion uh uh guide that I mentioned to you one of the videos uh it talks about how it's a process. It's not like first things first. It's it's a process you do you do both of them simultaneously. Most people start studying before they move um when they don't live in a Jewish community already. Knowledge of Hebrew is not required for conversion. No. In my city in Brazil, I only know Kabad Synagogue. I go there for about 20 years for not to buy some kosher food. And I tried to talk about conversion but no success. Uh you will never have success not in Kabad or in Brazil. Not that I'm cursing you but rather because of you have two things pinned against you. Number one in general worldwide does not deal with conversion. Does not deal with conversion even if you've gone there for a hundred years. And number two, there is no conversion in the entire country of Brazil and many uh uh countries in South America. There's no conversions there. The only there's no bedin to convert people. You need a bedin. You need a Jewish court to convert people. And there they don't exist in in Brazil and other places uh as a result of many different things that happened in the past. But they uh the the leaders uh chose many years ago not to have any conversion courts in uh many of the uh uh the um uh those countries. So you'll have to move to a different country in order to convert. Rabbi, as someone that's currently in shidim, what should I keep in mind and how much should I focus on looks? Uh, in a lecture that I made two years ago in there was a whole segment that I talked about uh that's very very important uh and very comprehensive. I highly recommend watching that if I think I believe our team made a clip uh out of that very long lecture and it's on the uh Rabbi your own Ruven Shorts channel. If you go to the Rabbi Ron Ruven Shorts channel, it's a fantastic amazing channel where every day uh our amazing team makes a new clip that they cut out of my longer lectures and they add some bells and whistles to it, make it uh you know just amazing and they really really exceptional uh job. uh and over there um they uh first of all everyone should subscribe to that channel because it's just amazing. Second of all, if you guys notice and you follow us in different channels on uh the different languages in French and Spanish and Chinese, Arabic and uh Russian, all the other languages that we have, you will notice that all of those channels get their new clips that are published every day. they get they get from that channel from that uh shorts channel that I mentioned. Uh that's how good it is. We literally rely on it. It's just extraordinary work and big big yesh to uh to to the one uh main person that's that's behind it. Uh and uh I have no doubt in my mind that Hashem will bless him endlessly in this world and the next for what he's doing. And um so everyone should subscribe to it. It's just amazing. That's number one. I think it's that's even more important than the question. Second, uh in there you'll find if you go to that channel, you you just write the word conversion or you'll write the word shidim or you'll see that clip that I'm talking about. Uh so that's one. Uh second thing is in uh in regards to shidim the mindset that you're supposed to have is first of all you need to know what you're looking for. You need to know what you're looking for if you're looking to build a holy Jewish home and uh you're going to be learning uh Torah and then obviously you're going to be relying on your wife for ponasa then you have to look for somebody that wants the same thing. If you're going to be working and uh learning after work or before work or both uh then you need to look for you know a wife like that which is obviously the majority of people are are like that. You also have to look for to decide whether you want your wife to work or not. Why? Because if you don't want your wife to work and you want your wife to, you know, focus on raising the kids, then don't date a woman that's a that's a career-minded that wants to be a lawyer or a doctor or or or some type of architect because you're you're going to have a problem. Even if you like each other, you're going to have a problem. Why? Because she has a certain mindset. That's that's her goal in life. So, you already know from the beginning what you're looking for. and uh determine who you select based on that. Second thing is is uh ideology. You have to find someone that has a similar ideology to you. Don't if you know if you're want to live a religious life, don't even bother dating non-religious girls or girls that are you know too modern you know where they they may uh observe Shabbat but they don't observe modesty or they don't observe kosher or they don't observe some of the other foundational rules. Another thing I had one of my uh students ask me about uh just uh recently uh he was uh on a shid and uh the you know and they went on several dates and then the the girl told him that uh she uh doesn't think that the husband should be the top priority all the time. Sometimes uh the her friends should be more important than the husband and uh so this is a red flag. Why? Because this means that this woman is not really ready to be a wife. She's not really ready to be a wife. She wants to, you know, she wants to have somebody, but she still wants to live the single life. So, if you want to build a holy Jewish home, this is not somebody that you should be dating or or marrying. Why? Because you're going to have a wife that's uh you're going to come home waiting for to see your wife, to eat, to drink, to to to to communicate with, to socialize with, and she's not home. Why? She's out with her friends. she's having a a drink at some bar or she's having a coffee or whatever it is. If if you don't want to marry a socialite, then you should already know that ahead of time. And this is something that you can discover pretty quickly. Um, usually women that are careerfocused are more open to that type of socialization. It's not necessarily every woman that's careerminded but it's very common uh among them especially today in in uh uh in society. Uh so you need to know what you're looking for. As far as looks are concerned the itself says that if a man wants to get married he has to compromise. Meaning that if you're going to look for a woman that looks exactly like your dreams, then uh either you are going to stay dreaming and never get married uh or you're going to be very very miserable because you'll find a woman that looks exactly like your dreams, but the rest of her is not going to be uh like your good dreams, more like your nightmares. So if a person wants to get married, they have to compromise and not look for Mrs. Perfect. I'm not saying look for a person with deformities or anything. Uh but uh the main thing you should be looking for is the ideology and uh to to have the same goals in life, you know, and uh so even if she's not uh you know a 10 on your list, uh that's that's okay because neither are you. The third thing I would say is for people to be realistic, especially for guys uh that are very into the looks uh and they every you know all of them want you know all of their fantasies and desires and lusts fulfilled. Um first of all that's not good for you. Uh because if she is that beautiful that means everyone thinks that she's that beautiful and everyone's going to think about her look at her and it makes it very very difficult for marriage and also uh you know not not very good for uh for for someone that doesn't want to get married multiple times if you understand what I mean. The second thing is is that you know when it comes to a uh when it comes to uh marrying somebody um you have to understand that the ideology of the person is much more important than their looks because the looks do not stay. People age, people get pregnant, people uh go through different things. So, a person that invests everything into looks is going to live a very disappointing life because she's not going to stay 20 forever. And uh if you have a horrible mentality and a horrible personality that's combined with beautiful looks, that means you're going to suffer your whole life because [snorts] the looks will be will disappear over time or at least deteriorate over time. Uh and but the horrible personality will continue to worsen. The third thing or next thing on the list that I would say is for people to be realistic. This is very important especially for guys that are very focused on looks. Um before you determine that you are only going to accept someone that's a 10 uh on your scale of looks or eight or seven or whatever number you think is your your uh what you want. Um I would highly recommend to don't tell anybody I said this. highly recommend to look in the mirror. Did you hear that? Look in the mirror. Why am I whispering? Look in the mirror. WHY? YOU'RE NOT A 10. You're not a 10. STOP LIVING IN FANTASY land thinking that you deserve a 10. Stop it. You got these guys that uh literally sometimes it's a little bit you you need glasses to to to identify whether it's a human or not but they think that they deserve mali like stop it stop it with the fantasy stop it with the l stop it with the garbage people I know people that they they ask me for uh help I don't deal with and there's a reason for that it's not because I don't want to help people it's because people in most cases are unhelpable. able are unhelpable. Why? They're too picky. They're so people are so picky and it makes me so sick to my stomach how picky people are that we actually actually have a song on our chuva music about how people are picky. I spoke about this many times over the years and they made even a song about it. I see people, they come to me, they're 35 years old and he still wants somebody that's uh fits his description. She has to be, you know, uh, uh, no older than 25. She has to look like this. She has to look like that. Khabibi, you're 35 years old. You're two steps away from becoming a grandfather already. What? What? What are you talking about? Whoever was even willing to look at you marry them. But they don't think so. They think that, no, no, they know better. And before you know it, they're 40 and they're not married. And they're 45 and they're not married. And they're 50 and not married. And uh, of course, they sin the whole way there. And even if they hold themselves for a year or two years, eventually they sin. Whether it's with this or whether it's with that. I don't have to describe to you guys how people sin because I'm sure everyone knows. Uh the point being is people live a deluded life because of their ego. Because they feel they're melamaniacs. They're melamaniacs that think that they are better looking than what they really are. They feel like they deserve more than what they really are. uh they're entitled to more to more than what they really are and they're single for much longer than they thought that they were. So say in the and many talked about it over the years. If you want to get married and build a Jewish home already know before you even met the girl before you even looked at a shiduk resume, you will have to compromise if you want to get married to a a woman that you're going to stay married to. But if you are specific and you are uh everything has to be perfect when it comes to physicality or financials or things like that [sighs] unfortunately you are more likely to live a very very sad and miserable life than you are to be happily married. Uh so I suggest you listen to the and choose wisely. >> [sighs] >> Rabbi, your people have committed atrocities. Don't you think this is more important topic? Uh, my people have committed the best things for society throughout all of history. In fact, you could do a easy Google search and uh just type in what did the Jewish people contribute to society throughout history. We contributed religion. Before that, there was just idolatry, people praying to statues and and and uh and motorcycles and and rats, which some people still do in India. So, we contributed religion, monotheism. Number two, morality based on God. Number three, most of the commerce that you see in the world today behind it were Jewish people and still are Jewish people. Whether it's technology that you see today, for example, the phone that you're using or the computer that you're using, the microchips, the semiconductors was developed by our people, Jewish people. uh the uh most of the technology they use today comes from Jewish people. The country with the highest uh per capita amount of people that have won the Nobel Prize are the Jewish people. It's Jewish people. Say if if you compare for example the amount of Jewish people that have won we the Jewish people have won more than 25% of all the Nobel prizes in history even though we have less than 20 million Jews in the world more than 25% of all the Nobel prizes were won by Jews if that was uh you know a let's say if you compare that to the amount of Muslim people that are in the world about two and a half billion or so literally you would need a few hundred million people to win the the Nobel Prize winners which there haven't even been that many. So the point is that the biggest geniuses development in the world has come from the Jewish people whether it's for technology or it's the science or it's a uh you know the the world the arts uh you know it's pretty much in every part of society you will see Jewish people behind it. So to say we've committed atrocities, if you mean the advancement of society and good for society, if you in your world uh you know equate that to atrocities, then yes, we've committed many atrocities. But if you are like most people, civilized people in the world, non-terrorists, then we don't usually call that atrocities. We call that contribution of good to the world. And you're welcome. No, no, stop with the thank yous. Yes. You're welcome. You're welcome. I understand. No, stop. Okay. You're welcome. You're welcome. Oh, you didn't know. Okay. You're welcome. You're welcome. You're welcome. You're welcome. You're welcome, sir. Okay. I understand. I understand. You love us now. Thank Okay. Thank you. Enough with the thank yous. Thank you so much. Thank yous. Rabbi, do you speak Yiddish or can you speak Yiddish? No, I don't speak Yiddish. I speak Hebrew or English. Um, I was born in Israel and there we speak Hebrew. Uh, I'm a Spafari, so most Spafari Jews do not speak Yiddish. Ashkenazi Jews, many of them speak Yiddish. Um, but, um, I don't I don't Rabbi Manoahide. Should I not eat pork? Uh, oh, that's not a matter for no hides. Uh, as far as whether you're allowed to eat pork, yeah, you're allowed to eat pork as a nonjew. There's no problem of you eating pork or eating a monkey or eating a frog. Just don't eat them while they're alive. As far as health reasons, uh, no, you should not eat pork. It's a It's not a uh it's not a good feel. Okay. So, the Jews discovered a lot of things in technology in the past. What are they doing now? Okay. Uh what are they doing now? Okay. So currently the number one most uh valuable company in the world today is a company called Nvidia. You may have their product in your phone uh in your computer as we speak or if you're using AI certainly you're relying on their product. Now, Nvidia has uh happens to have a lot of money, happens to have a lot of choices, but the vast majority uh of all of their profits that they have today, all of their revenues they have today were as a result of the work that their Israeli department located in Israel discovered and developed. And that's why they are building a whole new headquarters uh in Israel, a whole new huge uh place in Israel. They're determining which uh city to go to. There's a, you know, a uh a race between the different cities, whether it's the same one they already have it in or a different one. Uh but uh everybody obviously wants them to be there. It creates jobs. It creates uh you know uh momentum and so on. But Nvidia is uh investing a whole lot more into Israel because if it wasn't for their uh Israeli department, Nvidia would not be Nvidia. And like I said, they are the most valuable company in the world today. And if you know anything about the markets or economy or technology or really anything, you should know uh about Nvidia. And um you could check everything I just said. you'll be very very uh disappointed that uh your anti-semitic uh questions did not pan out. Uh furthermore, it's not just Nvidia that's investing more in Israel. Uh Intel is investing more in Israel for the same exact reason. uh and uh other major corporations are investing more and more in Israel specifically because even though you can find Jews all over the world uh there's a special uh blessing for those that live in Israel apparently uh because the discoveries that they make over there in the technological scientific world uh physics every field is beyond beyond comprehension per capita like if if you look at the statistics of what gets developed in Israel produced uh it doesn't make any sense because it's such a small little country with so few people in comparison it's smaller than than most of the US states but yet more is produced in Israel than anywhere else in the world per capita and in fact more is produced in Israel than anywhere in the world with the exception of a few major countries like America and and China uh that even not per capita a few other countries obviously but meaning that there's an enormous amount of good that's coming into the from Israel that's why when people say oh listen you know America is uh you know funding Israel gives them what do you think America is doing it for free all of the weapons that America produces. Many of them get a little bit of upgrades from Israel. A lot of the uh things that you see that are protecting Americans today are due to Israel. Uh and there's a lot of other benefits that America gets from Israel that are much much more valuable than uh the few shekels they send. But needless to say, it's good to have allies. It's good to to have partnerships, but the vast majority of the world and needless to say, the anti-Semitics around the world do not understand how much they themselves rely on what comes out of Israel, they themselves rely on what comes out from the Jewish world. It's it's it's unprecedented. Just do some research on the people that you hate. What have they developed throughout history? What are they developing now? The medicine that you're taking most likely was developed by them. The uh the best doctor in town most likely is one of them. The phone you're using by them. The semiconductors by them. The software by them. It's uh you're using Google by them. The Jews it's everywhere. So you say, "Oh, they control the world." We don't, but our God does. And he chose to make a special. Does that uh mean that there isn't uh special people that are non-Jews? No, there's plenty of them. There's plenty non-Jews that are very good that are very very nice and uh and uh that that produce good for the world. But if you compare per capita of how much the Jews relevant to the number of Jews and how much they've contributed to society, every intelligent person sees this is literally the blessing that's in our para in our paradism those that will bless you will be blessed. Those will curse you will be cursed. Every country that has allowed the Jews to live there freely for at least a period of time was blessed tremendously. Egypt blessed tremendously until they turned us into slaves and then they were destroyed. Babylon blessed tremendously until they decided to torment us and destroyed them. Spain blessed tremendously until they had the Spanish Inquisition and then now most people don't even know that Spain exists still. Greece, you know, had had a blessing for a period of time until they don't. um Turkey, Morocco, um Russia, all of these countries, if you look at the times that the Jews lived there peacefully, those countries were blessed tremendously. When they kicked out the Jews, the blessing left with the Jews. So, America has extraordinary blessing over the last hundred years. Before a 100 years ago, America was not the most powerful country in the world. Simply was not. In fact, it was uh considered insignificant in the world. What happened 100 years ago approximately, they allowed the Jews to live here freely. And so long as they do, they'll continue being blessed. Why? The blessing comes in the package. So, as much as people like to complain about the Jews, really, we should be getting thank you notes. Thank you notes. Thank you. I love you. Thank you. I love you. Thank you. Thank you. I love you. I'll take a thank you, too. No problem. I >> [sighs] >> Thank you for the blessings. Thank you to the Taiwan and China does way more. I'm sorry, buddy. You are mistaken. Per capita. Per capita. Per capita. Do you know what per capita means? Go online. Want me to spell it for you? You can do a spell check. They'll help you. Most like you don't understand what per capita means. Did you go to school? School. School. School. S C H O O L school. Yeah. Tik Tok is not a school. YouTube is not a school. No. No. Tomorrow is my feeling. I was wondering if you have any help to do it. Uh if you mean tomorrow is your bar mitzvah and the first time you're going to put on to fill in. Um well, I mean you should have gotten somebody to teach you how to put them on. If you did already that a few things you need to know about. Number one, anytime you have on, you're not allowed to speak mundane things. You can pray and you can learn Tawra with your on. Other than that, you're not allowed to do anything else. You're not allowed to socialize, ask about the weather, ask about the game, ask about the stock market. I know that you probably see some people do that in your synagogue, but they're making a sin. Shabbat uh talks very very harshly uh about people that speak mundane things while wearing just imagine that is a one-way call to Hashem. You're on a it's that's in essence you're connecting yourself with the so if so long as you have no mundane conversations that's the second thing. Third thing is it's good to after you finish praying it's good to study Torah while you have on whenever you can. It's not an obligation but it's good to do it if you can. That's another thing. Third thing is respect them and and and and uh treat them with with respect. Meaning that not just don't put them on the floor or drop them on the floor but treat them carefully. get yourself a very nice uh bag to protect them uh when you put them on. You know, do it slowly and and and with with with care and respect. Don't uh treat them like uh people treat uh you know uh sports equipment. Uh that's that's it's very very important to treat the well. Uh another thing is make sure that you got your from a reliable sofair or merchant of and not just someone that sells it. you need, you know, it needs to be a reliable person that's an orthodox Jew that uh is aim because unfortunately sometimes people buy uh based on the cheapest price and they end up finding out years later when they check the uh there's no feline in there. It's just a box like a video that we published a few months ago where somebody went uh bought feline and two years later he decided to go check his feline and on camera they're opening it. Even before he opened it the tells him that are not kosher based on certain things of how the were made were glued instead of sewed. But nonetheless, as soon as they open it, even a blind person would be disappointed at the disaster that happened there. What happened? They found out that there's no feline. There's no scroll inside. Just a piece of uh leather. So the guy has been putting on fine with a blessing every single day for two years. And every single time he did it, there was a sin. He was saying Hashem's name in vain. Two years he didn't put on fine. Why? Because he bought it for the cheapest price and ended up being nothing. He bought nothing. free is was was too expensive for that piece of garbage that that he was uh that he was sold. So a good pair of tilene is not going to be cheap. Uh and also prices have pretty much almost doubled almost doubled uh in the last 10 years or so. Uh we sold feline on our website. I remember where we were able to get feline uh for $400 or $500. A decent parrot feline. It wasn't the best, but it was a good paren $400 or $500. Today you can't get anything for even close to that. A good parrot feline is not going to cost you less than $1,500. $15, $1,600 for a decent one. A really good one two 3,000. It's going to be much if you're asking a three 4,000 it's much much more expensive much much more expensive u there's [snorts] number one inflation number two uh there is uh less people doing it uh there's [snorts] uh also more technology that uh is sometimes utilized to uh to make it better quality uh whether it's the leather or to the monitoring the uh the sofair all types of things that they utilize to make it better and better. Point is that if you want to get a good pair of be ready to spend a couple thousand dollar or you know more more or less if you bought your for less than $1,000 if you could still get your money back get it back. I had somebody that uh I don't know maybe a year ago he uh asked me about Feline and uh I told him you go on the website and buy it at $1,600. I think that's what it was at the time. I think it still is for at least the the Rashi Safari one. The Ashkinazi is much more expensive. Um but that's because that's just the way it is. Uh Lebanon's a little more expensive also. But nonetheless, whatever. These are very very good fine that if you find the same file anywhere else, probably spend almost $3,000 for them. So, but anyway, I told him this is what it is. He goes, "No, it's too expensive. And this is a person that has money. It's too expensive. This other person is selling me fine for for $900, but I want to buy it from you. I'm I'm sorry. This is not like for business. I'm doing it more for, you know, courtesy and to to help people. Uh sometimes we end up losing money on these things. Like for example, meot the standard meuzot we're contemplating whether to stop doing it or not because it's losing money. Uh the saf have uh you know need more and it costs more and we bring them from Israel which is costing more with all of the different added costs over the last few years. Uh but uh whatever. For now we're you know we're uh we're continuing but um most likely we'll uh stop the standard messes and only focus on the really high-end ones because uh at least there we won't be able to you know uh we'll be able to keep our there's not that many orders of that number one and it's not uh going to be a loss. Anyway, the uh the guy uh asked for he wanted me to sell it for I said I'm sorry I can't lose money. It's an organization. It's not it's not it's not like my personal bank piggy bank, especially since I know that the guy can [laughter] afford it. Anyway, he decided to buy it feline from the guy that uh sold it to him for $900. Said, "Bo what you want. Your money, it's your life. Uh do what you want." He comes back literally a day after he bought it. He starts asking me questions about his why you ask me that you bought from somebody else. He asked me questions. He shows me pictures. things don't, you know, you can't really tell 100% from pictures, but they don't really look so kosher. Oh, maybe you want a check, maybe this, maybe that. Long story short, six months later, he realizes that he was better off taking the the the $900 and putting it through a shredder. You know, a shredder, how it cuts up money, cuts up any paper into 50 million pieces. He was better off doing that because at least they'll have the entertainment of watching something get cut up. It's a little bit, you know, what do they call it? a uh um uh satisfying satisfying satisfying. [laughter] Why? Because for the last 6 months he was uh simply uh not putting on fine while he thinks he was putting on feline. He thought he was saving money ended up having to spend much more. You know, it is what it is. But uh so don't try to save money when it comes to parent. Try to uh find somebody that sells good quality that's reliable. Cheap things are often much more expensive. You're right. 100%. Are return certificates obtainable? If I'm living in Mexico, can I obtain my tuda? If I obtain a rabbi as my sponsor and not being excluded, I'm I'm sorry. I don't really If you mean, can you convert in one country, go back to your old country? Usually not. Usually the bet is going to want you to live in the place that they're converting you. They're not going to uh convert you just for coming to a trip to Israel and conversion and you go back to Mexico or wherever it is. Usually, no. It's very rare. It's frowned upon by the ravenut to for anyone to do that if I was thought to say before reciting in the morning services while wearing is this correct? Um you don't have an obligation to say um but you can if you want to. I mean usually if you're praying at home or in synagogue you're supposed to pray the entire which you know um so you have some prayers before uh before the u and um there's no before it. I mean when you teach usually when you teach children uh to just say the for example uh either before going to bed or or in the morning because you know obviously they're not going to pray the entire uh usually then you say to uh you teach them to say that's what I've taught my kids it's very good to do but for an adult uh you should be praying what's in the sidu but even if you pray if you want to say you can. There's nothing wrong with it. But don't replace what's in the with if it's the same. It's not. You have to do more. [snorts] No, a non-Jew is allowed to eat any meat that he wants as long as it's not a living animal. Meaning, don't chop the leg off the horse or the cow while it's still alive. But once the cow or the dog or the or the horse or whatever meat you want to eat uh is dead, you could eat the whole thing. As a nohide, you can eat the whole thing. You don't have to worry about kashut. As a Jew, you have to you're only allowed to eat kosher meat and uh uh you have different uh restrictions. I like sardines and anchovies. Enjoy. Eat sardines. Eat anchovies. No problem. Sardines are even kosher. So summon I admired certain Rav who has helped me throughout the years to come back in Chuva and closer to Hashem. Recently was surface this Rav who once inspired me had fallen in sin of allayot. This news hit me hard and has me questioning a lot of things and has been hard for me to digest. I need your advice. Well, it depends. What do you mean the person has fell? I mean, do you did you see it? Is there witnesses to it? If you're simply saying that somebody says that this rabbi did something wrong and you believe it, then not only are you sinning by believing it, uh, but you haven't done chuva yet and you need to do chuva because [snorts] first and foremost, in order for something to be, uh, proven that it happened, there has to be witnesses to it. One witness doesn't count as anything. In fact, it's a sin for a person to come to the bed, for example, say this person did this uh without witnesses considered or depending of whether they're tell if they're telling you the truth, it's if they're lying, then it's which both of them are uh are big sins that bring destruction to that person's life. And actually, all of their merits go to the person they're saying about. Furthermore, the people that uh listen to it or watch a video of somebody saying these things uh they're all sinning uh if if they believe this uh even hearing it is a problem. But needless to say, if they believe it, it's a sin. It's a sin from a Torah. They'll get punished for it. Uh so uh it's a soul to believe uh such a thing. Uh and I think that in today's world, it's very easy not to believe because most things out there are fake. uh most things out there are fake. So, as far as if you're saying that this rabbi you have uh you heard bad things about him, um number one, how did you hear it? Did you see it? Do you is anybody is there any you know confirmation that this this actually happened from, you know, multiple witnesses or is it just uh hearsay? Uh is is is even the hearsay coming from a from a valid person? um uh meaning this person is a uh could could this person even be a witness. That's number one. Uh the the second thing is that uh you know even if a person made a mistake in their life uh let's just say your your your your uh example of that does not negate you know everything that they've ever done. Uh people have made mistakes, people will make mistakes, you make mistakes and most people forget to look at themselves in the mirror and and you know people are very easy to judge. They judge harshly everybody else but lightly themselves. uh and and and it's it's a very horrible trait that comes from arrogance where they'll for example me okay me people people that uh that I've helped over the years the moment that uh many of them are good but many people that I've invested a lot of time and effort and even in some cases money to help them and and different things many people are not only ungrateful people and terrible people but it all starts with you know people that judge harshly where they heard me say something in issue that they either misunderstood or simply didn't like and from that moment on all of the years that I've helped them all of the years that I taught them all of the years that I've I've invested into these people all of them went to complete garbage and uh they turned me in some cases into their enemy. I'll even give you an example. I'll even give you guys an example. There's always so many real life examples that why even give hypothetical. There was a family that uh that wanted to convert and uh they wanted my help and they were learning all my lectures. They came attended many my lectures and uh they were nice people and uh you know I tried to do whatever I can to help them and they needed a lot more help than the typical people did. there's a lot of issues, a lot of family problems, a lot of whatever. Long story short, if if I invest, let's say an average of let's say one hour into let's say a family and this family I invested five. Okay, just so you understand how much more I invested into this family in a lot of different ways. Nonetheless, I know it's free. You know, if somebody wants to donate, they could donate on their own, but it's never like a charge. Nobody ever gets a bill for me or anything like that for for the time that I invest into them. So anyway, and this is a people that wanted to convert. These are not even Jews yet. Okay. So anyway, they wanted to convert, but I told them that, you know, there's certain requirements that they were not meeting the requirements. Uh and uh I I can't sponsor them until that changes. You know, it was the main problem with was with the husband. The husband didn't really want to live a Jewish life. So that's that's a requirement. you can't stay married and if the husband doesn't want to live a Jewish life and doesn't have a job that is conducive to a Jewish life. So until that changes I can't sponsor you. So they decided, okay, let me ask uh another rabbi and uh then they would have the other rabbi call me, you know, then would So I told him, listen, if you want somebody else to convert you, would go to somebody else. If you want me to convert you, I'm not going to do it because you have to meet Allah. It's not long story short after all the years that I invested with this family and the resources and even invited this family to my house which is a many thousands and tens of thousands of people that I've you know spoken to and helped and and and communicate with and and so on. Very very few people have come to my house. Very few. This one came to my house multiple times and uh they decided to go to rabbis and start badmouthing me. And if that wasn't enough, you know, after the rabbis called me, asked me about it, I said, "What are you talking about? I could give you, you know, proof of all." He goes, "No, we don't think anything about it. you just wanted to know. Okay. Then they took it a step further. They went to a uh uh a different uh rabbi that hated me and uh apparently he brought them to a bedin and uh at the bed they invented a whole bunch of lies. They said I I I stole $40,000 from them. that uh I I did this like literally invented lies that even I don't even think terrorists do what they said. They invented every lie under the sun. Like literally try to destroy anything that's remotely good that I've done over the years for no reason. Just to look favorable in that bed dean's eyes. That's it. And of course the the uh the they they this got back to me. Then they tried to do it with another place. They uh cuz that place didn't convert them. Uh anyway, they just heard and the person that didn't like me over there enjoyed it, publicized it. Uh felt like he was there was ammunition for him. Um then they didn't even uh you know they went to a bed that I'm very familiar with and I've worked with and and that know me well and they did the same exact thing over there and they said they came to bed know me they contacted me and said we don't believe anything they said but I just want you to know this is happening. I said I already know because they did it somewhere else and I told him the whole real story of what happened and I said listen we won't look we won't convert them even if they pay us a million dollars. Uh I said you shouldn't based on what these people are doing. So long story short after they did all this they thought that if they destroy my name uh with different rabbis with different places uh it will raise them up in in in total pole. U it ended up not doing anything good for them. In fact only bad things happened to them after that. Um, and the best part about it is that after I don't know, however much time it was, 6 months, a year later, they tried to contact me again. Oh, you know, we're sorry. Can can can you still be our rabbi? [laughter] said to them, "Okay, once you fix what you've done, all of the that you spread, all of the, you know, the lies and uh that you made people think that I stole money or I took money from you or anything, uh, go fix that first, then come and say I'm sorry." You say, "I'm sorry," means nothing. You say, "I'm sorry," means nothing. Go fix what you did. I did everything I did for free. And you made like literally like lies that were like destructive and and disgusting. So I mean I could charge for everything I do. I don't I don't have to, but I can. There's no problem. People will pay. People pay other people that don't don't even do 10% of what I do. Uh so they uh said, "Oh, please can you No, go fix it." Anyway, they obviously didn't want to fix it because that will bring them embarrassment. for being liars. And guess what? All of the people that told them that they will help them if they speak bad about me, all of the people that told them that they will be there for them if they speak bad about me and they go against me because guess what? All of those people ended up being bad to them. Ended up taking advantage of them. They realize that what they did to others, what they did to they tried to do to me is being done to them and even worse. And they realized that they made a mistake of a lifetime. And uh if you can ask me, oh, can you forgive them? No. No. Until they fix what they did, they can't fix it. Okay. Don't problem. You know, you can't you can't just try to destroy somebody, try to kill somebody like Ishmael tried to kill, but then he missed. He said, "No, no, no. I was just playing. I was just playing." No, doesn't work that way. So, when it comes down to people, unfortunately, many people are ungrateful, many people are not nice. Uh, but there are some nice ones. There are some nice ones, but uh so when it comes down to this uh rabbi of yours that you say somebody told you he did something bad, number one, I told you you have to check if the source of information that you have is a valid source according to Allah. Because if it's not, you are making a sin. you are uh trusting a criminal that's publicizing a you know that's publicizing something that's not allowed to be publicized because that's not the way that works. You can't just be a single witness. Um unless it's like something like pedophilia or rape or something like that which I'm assuming that's not what you're talking about. Uh so number one you have to check whether that because if not you're a sinner and you're relying on a sinner. Number two, you're being ungrateful. Uh, and number three, it's doesn't seem like one thing has to do with the other. If somebody told you what Torah said for many years and let's just say you found out that they stole a million dollars or let's say you found out that uh I don't know, whatever whatever they did. One thing doesn't negate the other. One thing doesn't negate the other. It's it's not I think people are uh are very very harsh and very ungrateful and uh quite frankly you should be ashamed of yourself. Um last thing I would say about this is is this. Do you judge yourself the same way? Like would you give up on yourself [snorts] if you did the same thing? So how do you how do you judge somebody that helped you? Somebody that in essence is partner to creating you because before you did chuva, you were considered dead. So after this rabbi helped you do chuva. In essence, he became partners with Hashem. That's what the sages say. Became partners with Hashem with creating you. How can you even even even even even dare thinking that you can judge that you're in a position of judging anybody? It's bizarre to me that people think that way. Um and uh and then quite frankly, I don't know. I just I just uh I would say was your gratitude over the last I don't know however many years you've been uh benefiting from this rabbi was your gratitude as great as your criticism is. I bet you if you check the facts for sure you're making a mistake and judging this rabbi harshly and judging it all uh irrelevant of of of the circumstance because there is for everything. There is al for everything and we can't just decide that uh we're going to use our logic instead of doesn't work that way. If the person wants to do that, pick a different religion. Can Hashem take away my arthritis away? Sure, why not? He created the world. How does the rabbi make money? How do you make money? Same way you make money. I make money. Now you're going to tell me, "No, I make money because I work in construction." Okay? I work for Hashem. I make money. Hashem gives you money through your construction. Hashem gives me money through working for him. Is it good to live in Aventura, Florida? I don't live there, so I can't tell you if it's good to live there or not good to live there, but I know there's a lot of Jews that live there, and there's several synagogues, uh, there. I've been, uh, at a few of them. I gave a lecture, I think, at a couple of them. So, yeah, there's definitely, uh, good there. As far as living, it depends what you're looking for. It depends what you want. Oh, how did they say that I stole the $40,000? I have no idea. They just said I stole $40,000 from them. No idea. They just invented things. They invented they invented uh they invented a uh story. And uh I tell you actually the funniest thing, not really funny, it was not funny at the time. The worst part about it that the guy that spearheaded this whole thing was a Jew, this miserable, miserable Jew that wanted his son that no one wants to marry to marry this non-Jewish girl. He wanted to convert. So you ch So So when he came to me, when the guy came to me is he asked me, "How come you don't convert her?" I'm like, "They're not ready." "No, but I think they're ready." Yeah, like listen, I understand you want him to marry your your son, which it's none of my business, but I'm not going to convert somebody just because you want to marry them. It doesn't work that way. So, this guy is actually the guy that also helped influence them to the bad. They're still 100% guilty. Just because uh somebody else was involved doesn't mean anything. Everybody's responsible for themselves, you know, they're adults. Uh but uh yeah. Yeah, there was a guy there's always some rash that's behind the scenes. It's always but uh it is what it is guys. It is what it is. As far as the story I told you right now, I can give you a dime a dozen of stories of ungrateful people that uh that uh that do bad things to us. We suffer a lot from people. Quite frankly, the only thing I get I suffer from is from people. But we don't work for people. We work for them. We help people because that's what we need to do. Uh we try to help people. If people want to be ungrateful, it's their problem, not mine. My question is for my question is work for Hashem and make money but Kabad does fundraiser. Rabbi gives lecture for free. You're not understanding the answer. No matter what you do, Hashem will send each person their page 16 also 16. Just one is 16a, the other one is 16b says that decides how much money you're going to get, how much you're going to make, how much you're going to lose. He decides all of that in whether a person's going to live, die, and so on. So the specifies that the money that Hashem decides how much you're going to get in is irrelevant or irrespective of your profession, your age, your color, uh your uh you know your doesn't make a difference. Doesn't make a difference what you do for a living. Meaning that you could either be a guy that sells cups like this, you know, from hotel to hotel, or you could be a guy that uh sells uh books like this. Probably you don't want to sell this one. It's mine. You can't really sell it, and it's also very precious and beautiful. But most likely, people want something new anyway. Uh or you can be a guy that's a hedge fund manager, or you could be a guy that is a lawyer, or you could be a guy that's a uh criminal. Whatever you are, Hashem decides how much money you're going to make, going to lose. So you in essence work in your profession and therefore that is one of the vessels that Hashem can give you the pona. But it doesn't mean it's the only vessel a person a uh can make is money. Let's say he makes uh $50,000 from his profession. But if Hashem decided to give this person $350,000 for that year, he could still give him $350,000. You can ask how is there a limitation for how much Hashem can give? He can give it to him through an inheritance. So he got 50,000 from the job and 300,000 inheritance. He gave it to him from a lawsuit. He can give it to him from finding it. He can give it to him from investments. He give it from a million other things. Meaning that Hashem gives you your money. Hashem gives me my money. So as far as the vessel has no end of vessels, no end of the vessels. So the fact that I give lectures for free and we distribute everything for free is because I believe that Hashem runs the world that no matter what I do, Hashem will send me food to eat. Needless to say, if I do his will and I help his children come back to him. So if he feeds the gash, the idol worshipper, if he feeds the guy that uh you know is a uh working all day, even if he's religious, he feeds other people, why wouldn't he feed me? Why wouldn't he provide for me if I'm all I'm doing is serving him, praying to him, learning his Torah, helping his children come back to him, sacrificing my life, sacrificing my time, sacrificing my family, sacrificing my health, sacrificing everything that I have to publicize his name and help his children and the rest of the world get closer to Hashem. That's all I do. every waking hour that I'm that I'm that I'm uh that I'm I'm out is simply connecting trying to get more people to come to Hashem. Whether it's through uh publishing more books or giving more lectures or helping people, guiding them with answers and questions at 3:00 in the morning, at 3:00 IN THE AFTERNOON, ALL I DO IS serve Hashem. That's it. That's it. That's all. That's all I'm consumed with. And that means I have less time to be with my family, less time to take care of other things. All that's it. So what? He's not going to feed me then? He's not going to feed me. He's going to leave me starving. Says, "I have been young. I've been old and I've never seen a righteous person uh you know a um and his children not have food or abandoning them." So yes, provides provides for you. provides for me. Not really understand. I don't really understand why people ask those types of questions. What do you care about the profession of somebody, the uh the whether they rent or they mortgage or they uh they uh bought the car, they leased the car or they got a raise and all who provides it all. And uh that's it. I mean, if I'm not mistaken, you didn't get a bill for me to pay for my rent, right? You didn't get a bill for me to pay for my food. Not relying on you. So, what do you care how I get it or what I get? Who provides? Provides for provides for you. If you say, "Oh, yeah, but uh you know, I want to donate." So, donate. You're not going to get a call from me to ask you to donate. If you want to donate, donate. There's a website.org. You can donate. You want to donate to send me money personally. Send money personally. There's a sell and send a zel. You're just a curious uh person. Okay, fine. You got your answer. I just don't I don't understand those types of questions to be honest with you. It doesn't uh I don't I don't I usually like questions that uh I would ask also. I have asked before, but in my entire life, I've never asked somebody how they make money. Like I would ask somebody what they do for a living out of, you know, getting to know a person, what they do for a living. But as far as how they pay for a house, how they pay for a car, whether they bought, they sold, I know I never cared about other people's pockets. Don't understand. Don't understand. Don't understand. People ask, I know it's common. You're not alone, by the way. I'm not I'm don't even know who you are. I'm not I'm not targeting you or anything. It's a very common thing in society. I just don't understand it. I don't understand it. People ask all the time. They they ask uh you know Robert Fry all the time, did you buy? Did you sell? Did you do this? How much do you have? Like I don't understand that. Why do you care? Why do you care? I mean, is it coming out of your pocket? Are you paying for it? Did you get a bill from uh from from my bank or something like that? I [laughter] don't care. Hashem provides. Provides. If you want to know, you know, do I have or not? I work for free. I don't know. Isn't that Isn't that indicative that [laughter] I'm I'm a decent human being. I work for free. I give you this lecture for free. Three hours. Go get three hours for free from your doctor. Go get three hours from from any lecturer. Go. Good luck finding it. Only people that speak for, you know, uh for three hours of people that get money. I'm doing everything for free. I don't know. I think it's a it's a good indication that I have I believe in decent. [laughter] I don't know. I find I find those questions bizarre. >> [sighs] >> All right. Um, is YouTube the only place to ask questions? No, I have four, one, two, four, five different screens in front of me. Really, six, but one of them for questions. I'm trying to go back and forth. There's Facebook, there's WhatsApp, there's YouTube, there is Tik Tok, and then there's just a uh another camera. So, there's cameras. If I don't get to your question, it's whoever, you know, I don't get the right questions. It's not because I I I I'm dodging questions. I just um I'm trying to get something from everywhere. Oh, wow. Almost three hours. We got to finish this. Let me see. Is there a reason why I see most Jews with silver watches instead of gold watches? I wouldn't necessarily see most Jews, but silver is aim is mercy, whereas gold is dee. So if somebody is wearing something based on their spiritual connection to Hashem and and Torah then silver is because usually they wear something silver or at least white gold or platinum because it's mercy. Uh whereas gold is dean is judgment. It's not prohibited to wear gold. Um obviously the beta mikdash was full of gold. the uh uh gold is used. Uh but some people somehow not to wear gold uh because it brings judgment. Rabbi, how can an electron be in two places at once? physically cannot be in two places at once or is it only with a body and not electricity. Uh how the electron is in two places. This is this is the uh part of um this is part of uh quantum mechanics. Um this is how Hashem created the world. uh for for certain things that's that are not necessarily on the physical level like uh material that are certain things that are uh closer to spirituality. The same concept for example with uh fire. Fire is very close to something completely spiritual but it's not completely spiritual because you could see fire with the naked eye. Uh and if you touch fire obviously it's not going to be good for you. Uh but you cannot hold fire. can't grab it and hold it. You can't contain it. Uh so there are certain things in creation that are in between. There is obviously the purely solid physical uh things. Uh there is the uh things that are completely spiritual like you know the uh the the angels, the demons, the you know different spirits uh different things. There's something in the middle like fire. Uh then there's also the the uh different uh things that make up uh the you know uh things like the you know electrons, protons, neutrons, uh you know atoms, you know all these different things. Uh you can't really call them physical things. Uh you can't call them completely spiritual. It's it's somewhere in between similar to fire. And uh when something is, you know, not completely physical, it's not subject to the u the same uh laws as something that is completely physical. Not just based on physics, based on just you know how Hashem runs the world. Like we saw for example with the example of Don Kesh. It was 100% physical. You could hold it, open it, touch it, but it was not subject to because the spiritually speaking it didn't take up space, you know. So this is beyond human comprehension. I live in New York and love it here. What should the Jews do if God forbid Madani wins the mayoral election next week? We should do chuva today. I don't think you should wait for next week. Do chuva today for believing that uh he could do anything to you that um is not in the hands of Hashem. He has no power. Hashem has power. If Hashem wants good for Israel, no one can get in the way. If Hashem wants to punish Israel, no one could do get in the way. So what people should be doing is stop being afraid of people. Stop being afraid of politicians. Stop being afraid of anything about Hashem and All right, let's see. One last question. We'll finish it tonight. I think it's been long enough. What do you think about the draft decree in Israel? What do you what I think about it? any any Jew that has yachim knows that the this is only going to bring problems to Israel because they're fighting against the Torah. You know, the they're simply uh fighting against the Torah. They think that they fight fighting against the uh Torah learners is going to help. Um but they should look at history. Anytime anyone has fought against the Torah, it only brought them a disaster. Now, of course, is to always do chuva, has to always get stronger, has to always fight against somebody that's going against them, even if it's from within. But this is part of the that are going to fight even the Msiah himself when he comes. So, uh you know, this is part of the this is part of the end of days. Okay. Hopefully you guys will take some of this and apply it to your life. Anyone that wants to donate, you can go toem.org. Uh, also as a reminder, anyone that wants the sadik that we have uh to pray for them uh at then you can uh go to the website, go to the shops and uh you can um buy yourself the ticket over there. You'll get if you do that uh you'll get a video of him actually uh praying for you. You'll hear his voice. You'll see the candle he lights for you. Uh you'll hear your name. Uh and um you'll get it uh you know right after he does it. Usually it's within a a day or two. We send it to people and uh that's for it's a big uh thing that people do that uh to do it all year but it's a special thing to do it during her on her yard site which is on Sunday. So if you want to do it few, you'll have to uh um sign up u no later than mo Shabbat and even that's cutting it close because I have to tell him and uh he has to you know he goes there uh on Sunday which again is a sevenhour difference and of course for those of you that are clever and want to help Hashem uh shem's children to uh come back and not to go to Gome. Get at least 10 of these Kiru boxes that uh are simply the ultimate tool to help people do cha. Get 10, get 50, get a hundred, get as many as you can afford. And as Rabbi Fry said publicly, even if you have to go borrow money, go do it. It's worth it because it'll be a uh an investment of a lifetime for you. You give it to somebody, they watch it, they'll do chuva. It's simply a tool that's unlike anything else uh the world has ever seen. Get as many of them as you possibly can. I understand it costs money, but that's what Hashem that's why Hashem gives money. Hashem gives money so you could use it to sanctify his name, not just to uh buy gold watches and silver watches. Uh it's it's also to do. We will learn again next week. Hold tight. We're finally here. The new Kir box opens up. A nice little cushion here. I got Let's see if it's charged. >> Isn't that amazing? Still bust your life. >> Now available at.com.org. org. Get yourself 20 of them, 30 of them, 50 of them. distribute them to all the people that you care about and you get people to do the chuba.